Born in Sicily in 1920, Sal Sirugo came to the United States in 1937; his father, who had emigrated 15 years earlier, brought his children to America one by one. Sirugo took work with the Civilian Conservation Corps, first as a firefighter in Idaho and later, as a mason at Watkins Glen State Park in upstate New York. Drafted into the war in 1942, he sustained serious injuries and earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. He took up drawing during more than three years of recuperation in veteran (showing 500 of 3410 characters).

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